Re: Group Policy when power down Win XP client

Howdy Frank!

Frank wrote:
I'm preparing for the 70-270 exam & want to make sure I'm not confused on a very basic point. What happens to Group Policy on a Win XP Pro domain client when you power down, and then restart and log on while not connected to the network, and using a cached User Profile? LGPO is present, of course. But from what I've read, it appears that the SDOU portion of Group Policy (both Computer and User settings) have not been saved. Thus the workstation is functioning on LGPO alone. On the other hand, if the client is just unplugged from the network, but not powered down and the user not logged off, then I suppose SDOU would still be in operation. Is all of that correct? If so, then it appears that one should pay serious attention to having a good LGPO when deploying Win XP, even in a domain setting. I'd appreciate some help on this.

All domain Group Policy settings will be saved locally after having them applied successfully once. So if you go and log on to your domain, let the computer pull all Group Policy, shut it down and restart it without having connectivity to the network (or the domain controllers), the policies will take effect as they are cached locally.

cheers,

Florian
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